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" I've always thought abstractly - through theme and variations rather than narrative. "

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" I don't see much difference between living and working. I think living is a part of my work. People often say, 'How can you work so much?' I don't think about it as work. I think of it as a way to live. "

" The first thing you must know as an actor or director is the space you will inhabit. See the architecture; imagine where things can happen in space. "

" By giving the leadership to the private sector in a capitalistic society, we're going to measure the value of art by how many products we can sell. "

" If you slow things down, you notice things you hadn't seen before. "

" Some years ago, I was invited to speak in Houston, Texas. They said I was a founder of 'postmodern theatre'. So I said to my office, 'This is ridiculous for me to go and speak about postmodern theatre when I don't know what it means, but... they're paying me a lot of money, so I'll go.' "

" Christopher Knowles, Buechner, Heiner Mueller, Burroughs, Chekhov, Shakespeare - it's all one body of work. "

" My mother was a great typist. She said she loved to type because it gave her time to think. She was a secretary for an insurance company. She was a poor girl; she'd grown up in an orphanage, and she went to a business college - and then worked to put her brothers through school. "

" Actors always start with the voice and language. That's wrong. They should start with the body. The body is an actor's most important resource. "

" I'm an artist, not a philosopher. "

" As a very young man growing up in Texas, usually I got a shotgun or cowboy boots for Christmas. "

" I think people are looking for an alternative to the fast pace of everyday life and entertainment. "

" To me, what is important in the theater is that we don't want to make a conclusion. We don't want to make a statement, don't want to say what something is. We want to ask, 'What is it?' "

" I learned loudness from working with Lou Reed. "

" Yes, I've been in love, but I guess I'm too involved with myself and my work. I think I'm in love with my work, and I'm in love with the people I work with. "

" We're so afraid to lose the audience. Let the audience go. "

" I always thought of the English landscape as being English gardens. "

" My tax dollar, which goes to New York State Council on the Arts, is by and large only spent to fund people from the state of New York! And you want to be the cultural capital of the world? "

" New York is very provincial. They're very cut-off; they don't have an awareness of so much that is going on in the world. "

" Most theater tells you what to think. "

" I try to present something that is full of time. Not timeless, but full of time. I never like a work where we try to update it, but it's still not interesting to see a work that is dated. If one is successful, then a work can be full of time. And time is very complex. "

" The reason you work as an artist is to stay open and ask questions. "

" There are schools teaching 'stage decoration' as a subject, and they actually call it that. I say: 'Burn those schools!' "

" Everything in Wagner's work - the music, the acting, the staging - stemmed from the text. Everything served to interpret the text. "

" I think by drawing, so I'll draw or diagram everything from a piece of furniture to a stage gesture. I understand things best when they're in graphics, not words. "

" I grew up in a town where there were no galleries, no museums, no theaters - a very religious, ultraconservative community. "

" I did a masterclass at the Juilliard and asked the students, 'Can you stand?' 'Sure.' 'Can you walk?' 'Sure.' They couldn't. They had never really thought about it. "

" I think mystery... allows us time to dream. "

" I start any work the same way. I start a rehearsal with silence. "

" If you see the sunset, does it have to mean something? If you hear the birds singing does it have to have a message? "

" My theater is slow and calm, yet my life is fast and hectic, going in all directions. "